Continental Strikes Side Deal With Founder Harold Hamm

By

Russell Gold

Updated May 13, 2013 8:28 p.m. ET

Continental Resources Inc., the energy company founded and run by son-of-sharecroppers turned billionaire wildcatter Harold Hamm, disclosed in February that it was committing $95.8 million to an unnamed and unbuilt oil pipeline.

Continental said in a regulatory filing at the time that the deal was with an "affiliate." The pipeline, it turns out, is a $300 million project being developed by a partnership controlled by Mr....